Re: [GD-Windows] profiler for AMD

[Eero P. <epa...@ko...>]

Tugkan Calapoglu wrote:

 > We are considering to switch to Athlon XP from Intel chips.We know that
 > XP is compatible with
 >
 > Intel instruction set but  are they compatible with intel architecture
 > to the extent of internal counters?
 >
 > What I am after is, indeed, whether I could use VTune when I use AMD chip?
 >
 > If not, is AMD's CodeAnalyst good enough to meet development needs (
 > currently it has version 1.1 which seems like
 >
 > they did'nt have a long history of making profilers :) ) ?
 >

Considering how often Vtune (I have only tested it up to
version 4.5) decides that all my CPU is used by "other32",
I have been rather happy with AMD codeAnalyst.

You can also use VTune with Athlon, except for the EBS based sampling.



		Eero